Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] hwmon: acpi_power_meter: convert to hwmon_device_register_with_info

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Jun 30 2022 - 11:13:33 EST


On 6/30/22 07:49, LABBE Corentin wrote:
Le Sat, May 21, 2022 at 06:52:15AM -0700, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
On 5/16/22 05:21, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On 5/15/22 23:21, LABBE Corentin wrote:
Le Sun, May 15, 2022 at 05:29:54PM -0700, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
On 5/15/22 12:36, LABBE Corentin wrote:
Le Wed, May 11, 2022 at 07:10:29PM -0700, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
Corentin,

On 5/8/22 23:30, Corentin Labbe wrote:
Booting lead to a hwmon_device_register() is deprecated. Please convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info().
So let's convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info().

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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[ ... ]

@@ -836,20 +740,20 @@ static void acpi_power_meter_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
            if (res)
                break;
-        remove_attrs(resource);
+        remove_domain_devices(resource);
            setup_attrs(resource);

Zhang Rui found an interesting problem with this code:
It needs a call to sysfs_update_groups(hwmon_dev->groups)
to update sysfs attribute visibility, probably between
remove_domain_devices() and setup_attrs().

            break;
        case METER_NOTIFY_TRIP:
-        sysfs_notify(&device->dev.kobj, NULL, POWER_AVERAGE_NAME);
+        hwmon_notify_event(&device->dev, hwmon_power, hwmon_power_average, 0);

... which makes realize: The notification device should be the hwmon device.
That would be resource->hwmon_dev, not the acpi device.


Hello

Since my hardware lacks capabilities testing this, I have emulated it on qemu:
https://github.com/montjoie/qemu/commit/320f2ddacb954ab308ef699f66fca6313f75bc2b

I have added a custom ACPI _DBX method for triggering some ACPI state change. (like config change, like enabling CAP).

For testing config change I have tried lot of way:
                  res = read_capabilities(resource);
@@ -742,18 +758,22 @@ static void acpi_power_meter_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
                  remove_domain_devices(resource);
                  setup_attrs(resource);
+               res = sysfs_update_groups(&resource->hwmon_dev->kobj, acpi_power_groups);
+               res = sysfs_update_groups(&resource->acpi_dev->dev.kobj, acpi_power_groups);
+               res = hwmon_notify_event(resource->hwmon_dev, hwmon_power, hwmon_power_cap, 0);
+               res = hwmon_notify_event(resource->hwmon_dev, hwmon_power, hwmon_power_average, 0);

Did you add a debug log here ?

Yes I added debug log to check what is called.


acpi_power_groups would be the wrong parameter for sysfs_update_groups().
It would have to be resource->hwmon_dev->groups.


Even with that, no call to is_visible:
@@ -742,18 +758,22 @@ static void acpi_power_meter_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
                 remove_domain_devices(resource);
                 setup_attrs(resource);
+               res = sysfs_update_groups(&resource->hwmon_dev->kobj, resource->hwmon_dev->groups);
+               res = sysfs_update_groups(&resource->acpi_dev->dev.kobj, resource->hwmon_dev->groups);
+               res = hwmon_notify_event(resource->hwmon_dev, hwmon_power, hwmon_power_cap, 0);
+               res = hwmon_notify_event(resource->hwmon_dev, hwmon_power, hwmon_power_average, 0);
                 break;

I checked drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c is seems that is_visible is only called by gen_attr/gen_attrs which is only called by __hwmon_create_attrs and then by registers functions.
So perhaps it explain why it is never called.

Ah yes, you are correct. Sorry, it has been too long ago that I wrote that code.
Effectively that means we'll have to rework the hwmon core to generate attributes
anyway and leave it up to the driver core to call the is_visible function.


Attached is an outline of what would be needed in the hwmon core.
Completely untested. I wonder if it may be easier to always
create all attributes and have them return -ENODATA if not
supported.

Guenter


Hello

Do you plan to send your change as patch ?
My patch serie is stuck since now it depend on it.

Or can I send a new iteration of my serie with partial support for notify.


Unfortunately I won't have time to work on this anytime soon.

Guenter